So you've built a blog and spent hours coming with great ideas. The issue now becomes, how can I help people find my blog? This is a common question that people have, and it can be a real challenge. With the magnitude of blogs available in 2007, it's easy to get lost in the crowd. The first and foremost important rule is:#Post13
1-maintain your blog by daily post 2-optimize and monetize your blog. 3-make comments for other top bloggers that are relevant to your blog. 4-offer guest postings to others.
Hi webconsl10t, The best way to get traffic to your blog is 1) producing great content that people want to read, 2) SEO that content so it is indexed in SERPs and 3) get as many backlinks as you can. 1 - Great content This is down to you. There is no use creating a blog about a subject no-one is interested in. Regardless of how much time you spend optimising it, if people aren't interested in the content, they won't search for it. Start by using the Google Adwords Tool to generate long-tail keywords relevant to your site. Targeting these longer phrases is easier due to less competition. Every week, pick a couple of long-tail keywords and write one article for each. Don't go overboard and think to much about keyword density and so on. Just make sure the keyword is included in the H1 title tag, the meta title, the meta description and 2-3 times in the body copy. 2 - Optimise your blog design Make sure your blog is SEO friendly. If you are using Wordpress, then essential plugins include Platinum SEO (or All-in-One SEO) and XML-Sitemaps. Adding these two plugins alone can work wonders. Sign up to Google Webmaster Tools, Yahoo Sitemaps and MSN. Submit your blogs sitemap (created with the XML-Sitemaps plugin) to each of these services. This will encourage the spiders to visit your site and alert them when you add fresh content. Look at the design of your blog and check the SEO basics: Does each page have one and ONLY one H1 tag? Are you including keywords in your post titles? Are you including keywords in your post subheadings (H2 tags)? Does each page have a unique meta description and title? Are you adding keywords to the alt attribute on images? Are you making use of tags? Does your post category structure include keywords? 3 - Getting One-way Backlinks The next step is to get other sites to link to you. There are several ways to do this: Look at sites that rank well for your target keywords and see who links to them using a tool like SEO for Firefox. Then contact each of these sites and ask if they would be willing to link to you. Submit your articles to sites such as eZine. Other people will pick up your content and place it on their site, including links to your blog. NOTE - Pay careful attention to the anchor text you are using when linking to your site. It should be keyword rich. Submit your blog to a directory such as BlogCatalog.com. Submit article to social sites such as digg.com. Of course there are many more ways to achieve a traffic surge to your blog, but the above will give you a good foundation. Hope that helps, Flowstack